Chapter 11. Making External Data Available Locally
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
Load external data into a DataTable or DataSet
Return updated DataSet content to an external source
Use SQL statements and stored procedures to manage DataSet content
The disconnected data experience provided by ADO.NET revolves around the DataSet class and its supporting objects. The last few chapters have introduced ways to access external data with ADO.NET, but none of those features took advantage of the disconnected aspects of the framework. Still, part of the promise of ADO.NET is its ability to manage external data in a disconnected and table-focused way.
This chapter introduces the DataAdapter class—the class that fulfills that core data promise. ...
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